NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – The U.S. State Department has confirmed the deaths of two more Americans in the Dominican Republic over the last three years.

The FBI is investigating the deaths of nine other American tourists who passed away under mysterious circumstances over the last year.

On Friday, the island’s tourism minister claimed the rash of deaths are not a mystery.

“All of the deaths that have occurred, the causes have been determined and the results are… there does not exist, there does not exist any mystery as to how they died in the Dominican Republic,” Francisco Javier García declared.